Water Cycle

Unit 2 Assignments

Matter
MS-PS1-1

Heat
MS-PS1-4, MS-PS3-3, MS-PS3-4

Weather & Climate
MS-ESS2-5, MS-ESS2-6

Water Cycle

Bundle 2 How does a change in thermal energy affect matter?

MS-ESS2-4 Evidence Statement
Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.
Packet
[Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the ways water changes its state as it moves through the multiple pathways of the hydrologic cycle. Examples of models can be conceptual or physical.] [Assessment Boundary: A quantitative understanding of the latent heats of vaporization and fusion is not assessed.]

These concepts of energy transfer connect to the idea that the ocean exerts a major influence on weather and climate by absorbing energy from the sun, releasing it over time, and globally redistributing it through ocean currents (ESS2.D as in MS-ESS2-6), which in turn connects to the idea that global movements of water and its changes in form are propelled by sunlight and gravity (ESS2.C as in MS-ESS2-4). These concepts also connect to the idea that complex patterns of the changes and the movement of water in the atmosphere, determined by winds, landforms, and ocean temperatures and currents, are major determinants of local weather patterns (ESS2.C as in MS-ESS2-5).

Practice Quizzes:

Water Cycle properties
Water Cycle phases
Water Cycle processes

Take every day before sleeping!

Vocabulary Review Activities

Ordered List

BrainPop Animations and Practice Quizes *

PearsonPPT-Thumb Water Slideshow

Folder 6th Grade Science Site

Folder 6th Grade Science Resources

Vocabulary - Glossary

Water Cycle Chapter 1 Section 3: Pages 32-37: Guided Reading

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Properties of Water: Chapter 1, Section 2 Pages 23-31 :

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Water On Earth Excerpts Chapter 1, Section1 Pages 20-24
River Structure Diagram Pages 48-49

Textbook

AudioBk

Summary

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Booklets

Science Skills Handbook
Appendix: Pages 202-214:
Process Skills Packet

Labs & Videos

Glaciers PHET write up an experiment based on this activity.	Phases of Water Gizmo Gizmos Lab packet doc &	Greenhouse Effect PHET write up an experiment based on this activity.	ETE Water Cycle informational page
	USGS Kids' Water Cycle	Gizmos Water Cycle Worksheet PE Practice	States Of Matter Worksheet based on this activity.
Sugar and Salt Solutions conductivity, concentration, evaporative and crystal formation	Salts & Solubility Solutions	Molecules & Charge write up an experiment based on this activity.	Density write up an experiment based on this activity.
NGSS - ESS 2-4 Earth's Systems Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity. Directions Stations Diagram Water Cycle Packet	PH Science Explorer Earth- The Water Planet	UAlberta Water Cycle Interactive EPA.gov Water Cycle Video NASA Water Cycle Game UCSD WaterCycle Simuation	Visual Periodic Table
Bill Nye: Water Cycle Espanol & Quiz Rivers & Streams & Quiz Oceanography & Quiz	PBS Life of a Glacier informational page Science Flix Tornado in a bottle	Water Cycle Clouds and Precipitation Earth's Atmosphere Oceans

Engage

Discrepant Event

Explore

Research

Explain

Write-Up

Elaborate

New situations/applications

Evaluate

project to share

Reading & Math Work

Reading

Build-a-Book

Math and Data

Data Games & Activities
Waves Math
Waves Graphing
Graphing with Smart PowerPoint / Excel Tools
Math Resources
Metric Steps

Projects by Learning Style and Media Type

Sensing-Thinking (Mastery) Facts Create a diagram that shows the water cycle and label its parts.	Sensing-Feeling (Interpersonal) A time when you... Show how __________________are used by humans.
Intuitive-Thinking (Understanding) Playing with facts Create a diagram that compares or contrasts different parts of the water cycle.	Intuitive-Feeling (Self-Expressive) Creating new possibiliteis Show how ___________.

Video/Animation Make a video or animation of atoms (see options above.) Narrate, subtitle, or text page to show this week's concepts.	Presentation Create a PowerPoint, ToonDoo, or other graphic that shows one of the projects above.
Podcast Audio Make a radio show, podcast, or song about the elements (see options above.) Narrate, subtitle, or text page to show this week's concepts.	Live Presentation Project Make a poster, play, song or cartoon showing your understanding of the elements in its many forms.

Essential Vocabulary & Concepts

Picture	Core Knowledge or Concept
	The water cycle aka hydrologic cycle is the continuous process by which water moves through the living and nonliving parts of the environment. In the water cycle, water moves from bodies of water, land, and living things on Earth's surface to the atmosphere aand back to Earth's surface.
	Properties of Water Water stores a large amount of energy. Specific heat is the amount of heat needed to increase the temperature of a certain mass of a substance by 1 °Celsius. Compared to other substances, water requires a lot of heat to increase its temperature. Ice is less dense than liquid water. Less dense substances, like the ice, float on more dense substances, like the liquid water.
	Evaporation – liquid water becomes water vapor, a gas, in the atmosphere when water molecules at the surface of oceans, lakes, soil, puddles and our skin have absorbed enough heat (thermal) energy from the sun to change state. (textbook p.32/33)
	Plant uptake – plants draw in water from the soil through their roots. (textbook p.33)
	Transpiration – plants give off water through the leaves (occurs on the underside of leaves, through openings called stomata) in the form of water vapor. (textbook p.33/34)
	Sublimation – tiny amounts of water vapor enter the air from ice (glaciers and icebergs), when water passes directly from the solid state to the gaseous state. (textbook p.34)
	Condensation – gaseous water vapor in the atmosphere changes into liquid water or solid ice crystals (deposition – phase change from gas straight to solid, forming the ice crystals that we know as snow), in the form of a cloud, when water vapor condenses as it cools and releases thermal energy. (textbook p.34)
	Precipitation – water that falls to Earth due to gravity as rain, snow, sleet or hail when the water (solid or liquid) becomes too heavy for the cloud. (textbook p.34)
	Runoff – when precipitation falls on land, some of the water runs off the surface of the land into rivers, lakes and oceans. (textbook p.34/35)
	Infiltration – water trickles down into the ground and forms groundwater. Groundwater may move underground until it reaches a river, lake or ocean. (textbook p.35)
	Animal consumption – some water passes through living things. Animals and people drink water and eventually release it back to the environment as waste. (textbook p.35)

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